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Welcome to the UK Innovation Districts Group Monthly Digest. Join us as we explore trends, lessons and new insights into innovation, regeneration, inclusive growth, placemaking and the sustainable and accessible creation of Innovation Districts and Knowledge Quarters.
As we end our sixth full week under lockdown measures, the new normal seems to sink in just a little bit more. As we further adapt, we're starting to see a real focus on what things will be like as we exit lockdown; what our legacy of Covid-19 will be.
The pandemic has highlighted how critical social support networks are, not just in dealing with the pressing challenges but in the long term effects on the economy, the workforce and communities.
How will our cities change post Covid-19? What innovative approaches to our way of life are being created? What frameworks for inclusive growth and social care are we seeing forming and what do we need to drive home now, while the world has focused attention?
Top Stories
Building Better Back- The Role of Cities and Innovation District
With special thanks to Tom Bridges from ARUP who has partnered with IDG and written the following timely and thought provoking piece. The article reflects a lot of the dialogue that’s happening across the urban development sector right now, with particular focus on cities and innovation clusters within them.
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Other News
Brookings Placemaking Postcards series have published an article titled Transformative placemaking amid COVID-19: Early stories from the field.
ONS have released survey findings on Coronavirus and the social impacts on Great Britain.
Centre for Cities latest podcast on Covid-19 and global city resilience.
MIT Technology Review has published an article showing how coronavirus has illuminated Silicon Valley’s diminished ability to innovate in areas that truly count.
The new statesman have published an article encouraging a stronger civil society to rebuild after Covid-19, titled The only lasting antidote to pandemics is a stronger civic society.
MIT and BEIS have launched their REAP-UK pilot programme. Find out more here.
BEIS have published headline findings from the Community Innovation Survey.
DCMS have launched 5G Create, an open competition within the 5G Testbeds and Trials Programme. Up to £30 million of government funding will be available, aiming to explore and develop new use-cases and 5G technical capabilities.
Partner News
Knowledge Quarter Liverpool partner, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, is working behind the scenes to fight the spread of Covid-19.
Knowledge Quarter London partners have been researching predictions of protein structures associated with COVID-19 and have launched a new study into into the psychological and social effects of Covid-19.
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park London partner Hobs 3D are 3D printing masks and respirator valves for the NHS during Covid-19.
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